dickersnoodle

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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
This is USAToday, the king of "out of context". Household wealth is "only" $143.8 trillion down from a record $150 trillion with most of what's in the article talking about the stock market. Get a grip.
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
> eventually you may have to choose between going back into an office at least part-time or finding something else. Resume/LinkedIn, savings and mindset are important here. If you want the freedom to say "That's gonna be
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
This is what happens when management gets sweet-talked into thinking you can make everything a web app.
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
What "trust barrier"?
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
Hmm. "A low level of trust between team members" sounds like remote work exposed some big defects in your company culture that should be addressed first. Why did "a lot of the tenured engineers" leave? Why weren'
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
This works for me. I trust Apple a lot more than I trust some third party rando and I enjoyed watching Facebook whine about losing data tracking revenues and whiplash into Meta on their way to more people discovering that the world can l
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
That first sentence sounds too ontological to be useful. St Anselm made the same mistake - because he could imagine a perfect God, that perfection required God to exist. He (and countless other apologists) believed that the universe and it
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
If it were only that clear-cut. "What we all have universal access to" is (so far) ineffable, which makes it open to lots of individual interpretations. The result is a great deal of what H. L. Mencken called "a great deal
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
"Everything else they believe follows from this first unprovable belief." Not accepting an idea if they think it conflicts with their personal interpretation of the Christian Bible can be a crippling inflexibility, and it (IMO) be
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by dickersnoodle 4y ago
According to Merriam-Webster, "customer" is defined as "one that purchases a commodity or service" so it isn't really a trope.